Microsoft Word 2007 comes equipped with a feature that allows you to publish a .docx document as a post on your blog. The setup is quite simple and only requires a few short steps:
1. Open the .docx file that you want to publish as a post on your blog.
2. From the Office Menu Orb, select Publish -> Blog.
3. Select Publish from the Blog Post ribbon.
4. Click the Register an Account button.
5. Select you Blog Provider from the drop-down menu (in my case WordPress) and click Next.
6. Input your Blog Post URL and your blog User Name and Password then click OK.
The open document will now be published as a post on your blog and your blog account is setup for future use in Word 2007.
Microsoft Office 2007 allows you to publish a .docx document to a blog and WordPress is one of the supported blogging systems. However, while attempting to register my blog for publishing with Word 2007, I received the following error:
To resolve this error the XML-RPC option needs to be enabled on your blog. The setting can be found by browsing to Settings -> Writing and ticking the “Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols.” check box.
My blog is now viewable on mobile devices. This was achieved using MobilePress WordPress plug-in.
Recently I was asked to create a forum for our teachers to use to communicate with their students. As a few ofd our teachers are currently using WordPress to post their blogs we decided to find a web2 forum system that would integrate well with WordPress. I have previously used and like Simple Machine Forum (SMF), so I decided to see if WordPress and SMF would play nicely together.
My first result was the WP & SMF plug-in for WordPress. This plug-in once installed, allows you to create users in WordPress and have them automatically populated into your SMF user database. The plug-in also comes with three functions to allow you to show the following information inside WordPress:
1. The last SMF forum posts,
2. The last SMF forum topics,
3. The last SMF forum members,
4. SMF forum statistics; otal Members, Total Posts, Total Topics, Total Categories, Total Board, etc.
The WP & SMF plugin was relatively easy, although I did run into one error which was easily resolved. I will post the installation procedure and the resolution to the issue I encountered soon…
WordPress MU: http://mu.wordpress.org
SMF: http://www.simplemachines.org
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